Some readers may not be familiar with French tycoon Patrick Drahi, save when a few years ago he briefly took a 24.5 per cent stake in BT Group via his international holding company Altice (he still ...

Whatever happens in the American mid-terms today, there are only two-and a-bit years remaining of Donald Trump as a politician. Will we miss him when he’s gone? Millions of words have been written ...

Good morning. Shabana Mahmood’s proposals to exempt care workers from her immigration reforms have been criticised, as reporters questioned the Home Secretary’s own claim earlier this year that such a ...

A year after Shabana Mahmood first announced her proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), nine months after a consultation (in which 73 per cent of respondents were migrants here on visas ...

The announcement that Shabana Mahmood is U-turning on the Boriswave reforms confirms that this Labour government has no intention, if it ever did, to end mass migration. Labour was always just pulling ...

No belief binds the nation’s pub bores together more strongly than the idea that we need to do away with ‘career politicians’ ...

Next year, it will revert to the single-week half term and abandon the dreaded two-week break. If only our Academy Trust in Suffolk would do the same. For the past three years, we have been subject to ...

Yes, cycling is a pastime, and we are not on the road out of strict necessity, but that could be said of most road-users ...

A treat for fans of funeral pyres in the Commons today as Shabana Mahmood gave her much anticipated statement on changes to ...

A treat for fans of funeral pyres in the Commons today as Shabana Mahmood gave her much anticipated statement on changes to ...

Hello and welcome to Monday’s Evening Blend. This afternoon Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, delivered a statement to the House of Commons on her reforms to ‘earned settlement’.

Only 18 per cent of respondents to the Home Office’s migration consultation were British citizens, new transparency documents reveal. Among those who gave their views on changes to Indefinite Leave to ...